Problems keep mounting in the administration's attempt to sell health insurance online. A data center critical to the operation of Healthcare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace, experienced an outage over the weekend. The failure affected the Healthcare.gov data services hub, which coordinates eligibility checks, and therefore also impaired local exchanges in 14 states and Washington, D.C.
The data center is run by Verizon's Terramark, which says the failure occurred during planned maintenance. Neither the administration nor Verizon has given an estimate for how long it will take to fix.
Healthcare.gov, the keystone of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, has had a long list of technical problems since launching on...
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